hey, i am working on a website www.faceofruin.com
im making the website for a friend of mine. he wants the first big gif to preload since it takes a long time to load and he wants people to view it all as a whole instead of being choppy. can anyone tell me how to make it so it preloads maybe with a little progress bar also, thanks much!!

edit:: website is at www.faceofruin.com/index2.html until it is finished, sorry

_Aerospace_Eng_

12-08-2005, 08:32 PM

4mb for an image? Are you kidding? The image shouldn't be any where near that file size. :eek:

Elgyn

12-08-2005, 08:37 PM

lol i didnt make it, im only doing what im told to do, i think hes crazy too, and its really tacky, but hes paying so w/e he wants im doing, any help?

mark87

12-08-2005, 08:46 PM

Who would be bothered to wait to see all that?!

Convert to Flash is my only advice (and even then, many people despise pointless splash pages).

Elgyn

12-09-2005, 03:35 AM

im not saying its what i want
its what this guy wants that im being payed to do, so i was looking for advice on how to actually do it
i know its possible i just dunno how to do it =\

_Aerospace_Eng_

12-09-2005, 08:36 AM

Javascript will not effectively preload this image but if you insist. http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/preloadimage2.htm

Elgyn

12-09-2005, 02:50 PM

thank you
i will try it when i get home :D

JamieR

12-09-2005, 03:10 PM

You'll only get the load progress bar if you use Flash and implement it. Seeing as it's a transition, you can easily create a flash movie which has them images and then the transitions, load progress bar etc.